Where are the Asians?

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UPDATED: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 12:36
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NEOOLONG

Friday, October 11, 2002 9:21 PM

I know. I was just trying to be complete. You're right with the sidekick cop-out.

WILLIAM

Friday, October 11, 2002 11:22 PM

It is sort of weird that there aren't any asian actors playing the characters, since the alliance is with the Americans and Chinese. But this show is set in the future. Maybe, finally people's ethnic background doesn't matter, and everyone just got it on, so everyone is sort of from 2+ ethnic backgrounds. Same with the languages, they all just meshed together.

NEOOLONG

Saturday, October 12, 2002 2:50 AM

Only problem is that the characters don't look mixed. Or that could just be me.

WILLIAM

Saturday, October 12, 2002 10:04 AM

Well, Jayne and Wash certainly don't seem to be from any other ethnic background other than Caucasian, but you never can tell. And anyway, does this whole "Where are the Asians?" really matter ? My ethnic is Chinese, but the thing really is no one can be really sure, where their ancestors came from. Unless they have their ancestors diaries, I mean I could be Korean/Malaysian/Chinese/etc for all I know.
My new friend (He's Chinese) at Uni, thought I was Malaysian... I certainly look Asian. But from what I've heard from my parents, my ancestors came from a small village in China. But who really knows for sure ?

SHADOWFLY

Saturday, July 1, 2006 3:32 AM

Figures.

HOLLISGREEN

Friday, December 4, 2009 5:38 AM

and Ninja Assassin with Rain

Is this better?

NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, December 4, 2009 10:52 AM

You guys will be proud to know that the new fan film Browncoats:Redemption is very ethnically diverse. Just look at the crew in the trailer.

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OPTIMUS1998

Friday, December 4, 2009 12:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Guantes:
Besides their bad accents, it is a nice and easy way for the serenity crew to express displeasure without displeasing the censors.... As a way of getting round the rules its quite clever and neat.

It leaves those of us who don't know chinese to watch what the character is doing, to see what they mean and not listen to them say it. Its all very clever stuff really.

an Interesting device to be sure, but been used before,not so much to the extent as firefly, but i remember in one of the early, if not the first, episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean Luc Picard (supposed to be French, played by an Englishman) looking at something on the view screen and saying "MERDE!", which is French for "SHIT!", and then continuing on in his fancy British accent.

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IREMISST

Friday, December 4, 2009 2:20 PM

Don't know if anybody remembers a post a couple years ago that said Summer Glau is Irish? or Did I hallucinate that?...

Surprised the hell outa me...

JAMERON4EVA

Saturday, December 5, 2009 3:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zicsoft:
Quote:
Originally posted by TinyTimm:
If I take my 1602 English dictionary and my 2002 English dictionary..humm one hand's a bit empty here....
Try comparing English as used in 1602 with that used in 1202. I won't tell you to compare dictionaries, because they didn't have them in 1202 -- they're weren't enough literate people to use them, and there was no body of printed literature to base them on. Anyway, you'll find that English in 1602 was a lot closer to that of 2002 than it was to that of 1202. People still read Shakespeare (died 1612), but how many can make sense of this verse, written in 1300?

Ich libbe in love-longinge
For semlokes of alle thynge,
He may me blisse bringe
Ich am in hire baundoun.

Hey, I know a language joke from the 1200s! A guy from southern England goes into an inn in northern England and asks for a plate of "egges". Yep, he meant "eggs," though he would have pronounced the second e. The innkeeper says, "Sorry, I don't speak French". Get it? No? Oh well. Any way, the local usage was "eggen".

Anyway, technology has a way of slowing down linguistic change. Printing, moving to an industrial economy (meaning more people were literate), and finally broadcasting.

Broadcasting was the biggie, but even before radio was invented, language change was slowing down. Which is why the Declaration of Independence is still readable, more than two centuries after it was written.

We all know that the primary basic language in english, providing something like 220,000 words, is the Germanic language? That's right folks, English is based off of German!

"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
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